Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. So
Speaker 2: nobody watched this but me. I wish I got more
Speaker 2: attention across America. It was Friday night or whatever in
Speaker 2: New York City the Al Smith Dinner, and it's something
Speaker 2: they have on a regular basis, is a big fundraiser
Speaker 2: for the Catholics, and traditionally both presidential camp candidates show
Speaker 2: up and make jokes about each other.
Speaker 1: That's the way it's always been for whatever reason, and
Speaker 1: nobody's exactly sure. Kamala Harris didn't show up to this
Speaker 1: one this year, first time anybody's skipped it in forty years.
Speaker 1: And my theory is that she cannot pull off humor.
Speaker 1: She can't like, she doesn't have control of her voice
Speaker 1: and her facial expressions and her weird cackle.
Speaker 3: I just I don't think she can do humor. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan, the comedian who's been doing Tim Walls and
Speaker 1: Saturday Live, he was the MC and one of his
Speaker 1: jokes at the beginning was, Hey, camelist, so you can
Speaker 1: go on Howard Stern the View, he listened the podcast
Speaker 1: Your Daddy. He listed all those things the comments did.
Speaker 1: But you can't come here to raise money for the Catholics. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't really a joke. It was just
Speaker 1: a criticism really. But one of the weird things about
Speaker 1: is there's just lots of Democrats and Republicans there of
Speaker 1: all different stripes. And Trump was up there doing his
Speaker 1: comedy bit, which was pretty damn funny, with Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: sitting right there with him. I mean, so to me,
Speaker 1: if you're believing Trump is Hitler in an existential threat,
Speaker 1: none of us should be in the same room with them. Shouldn't,
Speaker 1: let alone sitting there laughing at his jokes. Yeah, picture
Speaker 1: Churchill there at some fundraiser was Hitler. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Save the Way whatever, Carson. We also have disagreements. I
Speaker 1: don't like his mustache. Right anyway. I got a bunch
Speaker 1: of clips who are gonna sprinkle throughout the show today.
Speaker 1: But here's a little bit of Trump when he first
Speaker 1: started his routine.
Speaker 4: May Adams, good luck with everything, and they went after you.
Speaker 4: They went after your mayor.
Speaker 1: Ah, boy, I do that.
Speaker 4: Nine and a half months ago, I said, and he
Speaker 4: just said something about it, about the administration. He's going
Speaker 4: to be indicted any moment, and guess what happened. But
Speaker 4: you're gonna win. I think you're gonna win. I know
Speaker 4: you're gonna win.
Speaker 3: Said, good luck, good luck.
Speaker 4: It's a tor pleasure to be with you this evening,
Speaker 4: amazing pleasure, and these days it's brilliant pleasure anywhere in
Speaker 4: New York without a subpoena for my appearance anytime I
Speaker 4: don't get a subpoena. I'm very happy they've gone after me.
Speaker 4: Mister Mayor. Your peanuts compared to what they've done today,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: The idea of joking about all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: Mayor Adams, huh, good luck. Everybody laughs. He's corrup We
Speaker 1: got a corrupt mayor's stealing tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: in text. May Oh my god, that's hilarious. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: I mean, just me, he got accused of getting the
Speaker 1: hotel upgrades in Turkey and the millions. It just seems
Speaker 1: so weird to me. I know, Trump is more rambly
Speaker 1: and tough to follow than ever. Sorry, I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be enjoying the jokes. But yeah, he just he leaves
Speaker 1: out so many words, doesn't finish sentences. It just I
Speaker 1: remember interviews he did in the nineties, in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands where he was incisive. You knew precisely what
Speaker 1: he was saying in his reasoning. But he's developed that.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just a comedic style of his but trailing
Speaker 1: off every sentence anyway, it doesn't matter. So the election
Speaker 1: is tied, has been tied the entire time. I looked
Speaker 1: at a chart, so somebody posted over the weekend the
Speaker 1: line for Trump and the line for Kamala outside of
Speaker 1: and this is the average of the best polls, outside
Speaker 1: of the tiniest wobbles. They've just been a couple of
Speaker 1: points apart the entire time. That has never happened in
Speaker 1: any presidential election since polling began. And it's still just
Speaker 1: in that tiny little margin, within the margin of error.
Speaker 1: And that's where we are in the same with the
Speaker 1: swing states. You got these seven states that are going
Speaker 1: to decide it, and they're all within it, like a point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, It is crazy. Yeah, So everybody's heard that.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows where the.
Speaker 1: Polls are But this is some analysis one amusing and
Speaker 1: two really interesting that they came across that gets away
Speaker 1: from the endless polls stuff. I love this. Richard Shinder
Speaker 1: wrote a piece who says America is in a company,
Speaker 1: but the current presidential race is reminiscent one. The race
Speaker 1: between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump boils down to a
Speaker 1: choice between human resources and sales. Miss Harris's manner is
Speaker 1: that of a typical head of human resources. A well
Speaker 1: run HR team secures talent, gives employees important feedback, et cetera,
Speaker 1: but employees often perceive it as officious and hectoring. They
Speaker 1: associate the department with the delivery of bad news. Given
Speaker 1: its regulatory responsibilities, HR often plays the surveillance and reporting role,
Speaker 1: breeding employee resentment. HR departments can be inscrutable, fostering mistrust.
Speaker 3: So she's the pr professional Trump.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, as the arch archetypal head of sales, his department
Speaker 1: brings in revenue and sures a company can sell its product.
Speaker 3: The office is essential, but frequently seen as bombastic.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it lacks sufficient attention to detail and can be
Speaker 1: undisciplined with respect to profitability. A single team's well, they
Speaker 1: focus on the top line, ignoring profits and product holiday.
Speaker 3: They just sell.
Speaker 1: Mister Trump's rallies often seem like corporate retreats led by
Speaker 1: an overcaffeinated sales manager. His messages are aspirational, shoot for
Speaker 1: the moon, you'll get tired of winning, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And this guy's theory is that while voters can appreciate HR,
Speaker 1: and certainly they understand the importance of sales, we don't
Speaker 1: want the head of HR or the head of sales
Speaker 1: to be running the company. A really good executive understands
Speaker 1: how to meld both vibes and fields. I just thought
Speaker 1: that was funny HR versus sales, But then this to
Speaker 1: a topic we discussed last week. Unless you have any
Speaker 1: comment on HR versus sales, I'm not sure I have
Speaker 1: ever worked with an HR professional that I wasn't afraid
Speaker 1: was going to stab me in the back somehow.
Speaker 3: They have a certain mindset.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, one who I thought was that way turned
Speaker 1: out not to be. But it's the nature of their
Speaker 1: work anyway. So arn A Miss is a consultant and
Speaker 1: polster he is going to be.
Speaker 3: He's being used.
Speaker 1: As a consultant he's not a Fox News employee, but
Speaker 1: he's the head of Fox News Decision Desk that's crunching
Speaker 1: all the numbers, and on election Night is going to
Speaker 1: be in charge of calling various states and analyzing the data.
Speaker 1: We've all seen the coverage, right, and oh, Michael Lett
Speaker 1: reminds you, we've got to find that fabulous parody. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: old great parody of the Decision desk. It's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things that we've ever heard.
Speaker 3: We'll definitely be using that to tuesdays from now. Yeah, yeah, indeed.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the man who may call the winner is
Speaker 1: ready to make a prediction for at least when the
Speaker 1: news will come. Tuesday is election deadline day, because if
Speaker 1: you can vote early for a month, what does election
Speaker 1: day mean? But Tuesday you have to vote, right, the
Speaker 1: over under is Saturday, he says, that's probably about right.
Speaker 1: There's zero chance you're going to find out on election day.
Speaker 1: I mean, normally I would plan to stay up late,
Speaker 1: but there's zero chance they're gonna know who won Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, probably Georgia, so you know, Wisconsin. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we definitely won't know on Tuesday. Yeah, and they go
Speaker 1: into the various various details of why with mail and
Speaker 1: voting and everything so close and then deciding on signatures
Speaker 1: and disputed.
Speaker 3: Ballots and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, if we know within a week, that'll
Speaker 1: be good, which is unsatisfying, and again there will be
Speaker 1: just just oceans of bitterness, anger, controversy, false memes on
Speaker 1: the internet, disinformation, misinformation, and it's evil cousin mal information
Speaker 1: if a something to look forward to. Part of it
Speaker 1: is because the election is so close, But part of
Speaker 1: it is, you know, well, as you've been saying, the
Speaker 1: whole extending it from election day to election week to
Speaker 1: election month various places. And even if you like the
Speaker 1: idea of making it easier for people to vote, the
Speaker 1: damages it's done to people believing in the vote is
Speaker 1: not worth it. There's no doubt. There's just something about
Speaker 1: finding out days later that makes it feel less real.
Speaker 1: It just it just does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it doesn't really matter why or or it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't do any good to try to talk people
Speaker 1: out of that perception, because the democracy depends on not
Speaker 1: only the fidelity of the vote, obviously, but the perception
Speaker 1: of the fidelity of the vote, and Honestly, if you
Speaker 1: protect the fidelity of the vote, but people perceive that
Speaker 1: it's corrupt, you will lose your democracy. And so and
Speaker 1: I think the rock to vote, get every you know,
Speaker 1: dead person and comatose person and the indigent and the ignorant,
Speaker 1: get a ballot into their hands and have them scrawl
Speaker 1: an X on the line. Movement that's mostly democratic is
Speaker 1: a serious threat to the perception of the fidelity of
Speaker 1: the vote.
Speaker 3: It's difficult to make the case.
Speaker 1: Though it's much easier for you know, I could make
Speaker 1: the preceding rambling paragraph a little more eloquent, and they
Speaker 1: would come back with.
Speaker 3: You're trying to disenfranchise people, right You're trying to keep
Speaker 3: certain groups from voting.
Speaker 1: Right now, that falls disproportionately on minorities.
Speaker 3: Joseph, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's here's another clip Trump from the Al Smith dinner.
Speaker 3: Dig this.
Speaker 4: But the press is reporting the Democrats are starting to panic.
Speaker 4: They're panicking. They are panicking because, you know, the votes
Speaker 4: that are coming and are coming in very very strong
Speaker 4: a certain way. I won't tell you what way that is.
Speaker 4: But Chuck Schumer is here looking very lum It looks
Speaker 4: it looks to love. But look on the bright side, Chuck,
Speaker 4: considering how woke your party has become. If Kamala loses,
Speaker 4: you used to have a chance to become the first
Speaker 4: woman president.
Speaker 1: And I actually said, do you mind if I do that?
Speaker 4: He said, now you gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Is a pro he's a profession So I thought that
Speaker 1: it's so the joke in the punchline or something the
Speaker 1: Chuck would get, you know, gender transition surgery and become
Speaker 1: the first woman president.
Speaker 3: And then the I asked Chuck.
Speaker 1: If I could do that, joke says this too much
Speaker 1: for you, and he said, now you do what you
Speaker 1: gotta do. So just again, is he Hitler? Is he
Speaker 1: a threat to democracy? Is it the end of the
Speaker 1: country if Trump's elected president or not? Yeah? I can't
Speaker 1: decide if it's entirely that the phoniness, or if there's
Speaker 1: an element of Chuck Schumer that's like, yes, please do
Speaker 1: take a shot at the lunatic way out there, transit.
Speaker 3: They're not doing me any good. Yeah, that's that's it.
Speaker 3: That's a decent point there. The only person who never
Speaker 3: democrats maniacs, the only.
Speaker 1: Person who never laughed at all. It left one time
Speaker 1: was Mayor Bloomberg, former mayor of New York who ran
Speaker 1: for president.
Speaker 3: Briefly he looked he was very glomp faced.
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike me as much of a great guy
Speaker 1: to have at a party, No kidding. Oh, we need
Speaker 1: to talk about what is that the October thing we
Speaker 1: mentioned because this is be Chober theory. This might change
Speaker 1: your life, the October theory. It's a new thing the
Speaker 1: young people started. Most stuff that the young people started
Speaker 1: going to be around for one day. Probably this will too,
Speaker 1: among other things. We got on the way, stay here.
Speaker 3: Right head.
Speaker 5: Hitter digs in trying it is ready, kicks the livers.
Speaker 5: Rudder takes off, swinging a bouncer to the right side.
Speaker 5: This should do a Taylor collects on the first and
Speaker 5: it's over. The Dodgers have captured the National League pennant
Speaker 5: and they're headed to the World Series. The Dodgers beat
Speaker 5: the Mets at six and win it. Here did I
Speaker 5: ten five?
Speaker 1: So a Dodgers Yankees World Series. It doesn't start until
Speaker 1: Friday for some reason. I don't know why they need
Speaker 1: that many days off, but there you go with that.
Speaker 1: And generally, I think having the biggest stars in the
Speaker 1: game play in the championships of any sport is good.
Speaker 1: And you got show here Tony and you got yeah,
Speaker 1: what's his name for the Yankees that hits all the
Speaker 1: home runs? And there you go, Aaron Judge, there you go.
Speaker 1: Thank you're thinking of or come to Judge have fun
Speaker 1: with that. Would like to be cynical about it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds exciting. Yankees, Dodgers, bring it on. So we
Speaker 1: have regularly talked about New Year's resolutions being a combination
Speaker 1: of dumb and whyse depending on how you approach it,
Speaker 1: like a specific I don't know, see how long you
Speaker 1: can do a thing doesn't always work out, but kind
Speaker 1: of a reset of maybe some of your worst inclinations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a great thing.
Speaker 1: And you don't really have to do it obviously on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve if you are eating too much or
Speaker 1: drinking too much, or not going to the gym as
Speaker 1: often or whatever you're such suation is you don't have
Speaker 1: to wait till January first to address that.
Speaker 3: May maybe you know when it becomes a need.
Speaker 1: But so young people have decided in some meme that's
Speaker 1: popular on TikTok and social media, the October theory of
Speaker 1: changing your life, which is kind of like a long
Speaker 1: version of the New Year's resolution, I guess from what
Speaker 1: I understand from reading about it. Dubbed October theory, these
Speaker 1: people are rethinking their approach to the last three months
Speaker 1: of the year. The reprop their approach to their life
Speaker 1: on the last three months of the year, using it
Speaker 1: as a time to set goals, pick up new habits,
Speaker 1: and reflect again, essentially taking on the role New Year's plays,
Speaker 1: but for the last quarter of the year. While I
Speaker 1: am perpetually annoyed by the request that we take seriously
Speaker 1: every meme on TikTok or every trend that lasts for
Speaker 1: a day and a half TikTok challenge, people are driving
Speaker 1: nails into their ears. It's sweeping the nation, and several
Speaker 1: kids have gone deaf well, right. And it's interesting because
Speaker 1: back in the day before electronic media, social media ideas
Speaker 1: would evolve fairly slowly. They would have to have a
Speaker 1: certain amount of consensus, and then you'd have to communicate
Speaker 1: them to other people and that sort of thing, and
Speaker 1: I think there was a real vetting process. Now, the
Speaker 1: most idiotic idea in the world, for instance, driving nails
Speaker 1: into your ears, you know that could.
Speaker 3: Sweep the globe in thirty six hours and be gone. Huh.
Speaker 1: But I am remind this October theory. I'm reminded of.
Speaker 1: You know, every year after Labor Day, when we come
Speaker 1: back and do the show, at the beginning of the show,
Speaker 1: usually say something to the effect of a summer's over.
Speaker 1: Play time is over, it's time to get serious.
Speaker 3: This is the.
Speaker 1: Fall, blah blah blah. And it's that idea, the Okay,
Speaker 1: the summer's over. What do I want my real life
Speaker 1: to look like? How do I want to be? So
Speaker 1: I don't hate this one. No, no, no, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty good idea. It's a pretty good idea. And I
Speaker 1: have gotten in. My son is really getting in the
Speaker 1: habit of going to the gym, and I can tell
Speaker 1: it to be coming a habit.
Speaker 3: And as I was explaining to him the other.
Speaker 1: Day about how habits work, good habits and bad habits
Speaker 1: are hard to quit. So if you can make a
Speaker 1: good habit, man, it's awesome. Like it's very difficult for
Speaker 1: me to not exercise because I got in the habit
Speaker 1: years and years and years ago, and I just feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And if I don't do it in any given day.
Speaker 1: But that didn't come naturally. It's very easy to have
Speaker 1: the opposite habit. I've got plenty of other bad habits
Speaker 1: that are really really hard to quit. Yeah yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: you're making me feel guilty, but yeah, yeah, exercise is good.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll use the October theory because everything also has
Speaker 1: to have a Jetsy nickname, you know, make the fall
Speaker 1: by getting serious time. I like it, man. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what between the holidays you know you've got, and
Speaker 1: everything in travel arrangements and buying presents and getting family
Speaker 1: together and how are you going to do this and that?
Speaker 1: And happiness slash disappointment depending on your situation, and an
Speaker 1: election that could get drawn out for weeks or months. Whooah,
Speaker 1: So you think we're all going to be drunk, get
Speaker 1: some booze hands or something. Yeah, yeah whatever. Your takes
Speaker 1: the edge off of choice. For me, it's Pie, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty.
Speaker 3: You need you have Brett there and to clear the air.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do look like someone made a businessman in minecraft.
Speaker 3: I am speaking to Vice President Kamala Harris. Let's welcome
Speaker 3: right now to Fox News. Thank you, Brett. The pleasure
Speaker 3: is neither about it. Thank you about the Vice president.
Speaker 1: Give me the exact number of murderers you let loose
Speaker 1: in this country.
Speaker 3: Brett, I'm glad you brought up the topic of immigrate
Speaker 3: million two million.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: The first thing we did in office was to introduce
Speaker 3: a bit ten million. Give me a number.
Speaker 1: We came up with a.
Speaker 3: Bipartisan but you didn't have a number, though, please finish.
Speaker 3: I'm asking you to. Well, then you have to listen.
Speaker 3: Well I can't because I'm talking.
Speaker 1: Well maybe when I go to bed.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the portrayal of the interview on Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 1: which was fairly even handed, despite that clip which leaned
Speaker 1: more on Brettbaer interrupting her a lot. Yeah, the difficulty
Speaker 1: of managing a filibustering politician impossible. As we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about on Thursday to day after the interview. If
Speaker 1: a politician doesn't want to talk, your choices are really
Speaker 1: be a jerk or wasted the time of the interview.
Speaker 3: Those are really your only two choices.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, just give away the time or come off
Speaker 1: as a jerk. And when there's as we discussed on Thursday,
Speaker 1: if there's a male female dynamic in play, it's even worse.
Speaker 1: So anyway, having said that, some non politics for you,
Speaker 1: everything's politics. Eventually, anyway, crises at Boeing, an Intel or
Speaker 1: a national emergency. According to greg Ip who writes about
Speaker 1: this sort of thing, and he talks about how an
Speaker 1: and this is part of globalism, which looks absolutely fantastic
Speaker 1: on paper during times of peace. But we have given
Speaker 1: away our manufacturing might to the point that I mean,
Speaker 1: we're still great at designing stuff. But boy Boeing has
Speaker 1: had serious engineering problems. It's one of the greatest American companies.
Speaker 1: It's now looking at reorganization, maybe even bankruptcy down the
Speaker 1: road a little bit. And they go into the challenges
Speaker 1: Boeing has had, but hobbled by investigations into crashes in
Speaker 1: mid air, mishaps, blah blah blah, and Intel, which passed
Speaker 1: on making chips for the iPhone.
Speaker 3: They didn't think it would catch on at all. That's
Speaker 3: got to be that ought to be a people talk
Speaker 3: about new Coke.
Speaker 1: Who cares about new Coke. They spent a bunch of
Speaker 1: money promoting it. People said, yeah, I kind of like
Speaker 1: the old stuff, So they went back to selling the
Speaker 1: old stuff.
Speaker 3: It was fine. Intel passing on the iPhone. Everybody ought
Speaker 3: to know that story. Wow, no kidding, Yeah, But anyway.
Speaker 1: And then they get into a couple other problems that
Speaker 1: at Intel and how they'd made several miscalculations and can't
Speaker 1: manufacture in the US like it used to do as
Speaker 1: everybody offshored everything.
Speaker 3: And you know, both the candidates.
Speaker 1: They also make the point that both the candidates are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll take care of this through tariffs and subsidies. Jack,
Speaker 1: would you like to talk about a certain nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: American car during the time of tariffs and subsidies? The
Speaker 1: quality of it my horrible, horrible Ford Mustang. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's amazing we ever made anything that horrible at some
Speaker 1: of our big companies in America. And I'm a big
Speaker 1: Ford Van right. Oh yeah, their products are fantastic. But
Speaker 1: back in the day when all the American automakers were
Speaker 1: protected by high tariffs to keep away Japanese specifically competition, the.
Speaker 3: Quality was absolutely terrible, terrible.
Speaker 1: So, anyway, we have a serious challenge going forward as
Speaker 1: a country because we offshored so many of our manufacturing
Speaker 1: needs to hostile regimes. And it saved money and it flooded,
Speaker 1: you know, the United States with cheap goods. Here's where
Speaker 1: Jack usually goes onto a rant, into a rant about
Speaker 1: cheap crap as opposed to, you know, a washing machine
Speaker 1: that would last you twenty years and when you broke,
Speaker 1: you were shocked when it broke, rather which anyway, so
Speaker 1: true was everything is disposable, from washing machines to coffee
Speaker 1: makers to whatever. Yeah, at the end of nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: which is not terribly long ago, four of the ten
Speaker 1: most valuable US companies were manufacturers. Four of ten today
Speaker 1: zero are Wow. Now Tesla is ranked eleventh, so that's
Speaker 1: right outside the top ten.
Speaker 3: But it's it's troubling. It's troubling.
Speaker 1: And Tesla, which is now vilified for its politics. Where
Speaker 1: did I read a good article about that, about how
Speaker 1: all everything going after Elon Musk is is politics. It's
Speaker 1: just they don't like the fact that he likes Trump.
Speaker 1: I mean, so that's it's yeah, not good, right, But
Speaker 1: then you get into the question of which manufacturing ought
Speaker 1: to get public support, what kind of support you don't
Speaker 1: want quote unquote industrial policy or central planning.
Speaker 3: That's disastrous, it's.
Speaker 1: Complicated, and so many the doctrines of twenty five years
Speaker 1: ago are just not useful now the world has changed completely,
Speaker 1: So you know, I guess we know to cite Boeing
Speaker 1: once again designed the airplane while we're flying it. Speaking
Speaker 1: of which, Jack, I knew you'd love this story. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it yet, it's very right, Brothers. The Inn,
Speaker 1: there was a giant contest essentially technology competition hosted by
Speaker 1: the Canadian military saying asking how do.
Speaker 3: We bring down drones?
Speaker 1: What's the best way to fight unmanned aerial vehicles and
Speaker 1: smaller drones in battle. I'm sure most of you are
Speaker 1: already familiar with the fact that the war and Ukraine
Speaker 1: has been like fifty years worth of progress in unmanned warfare.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere doing everything from reconnaissance to de bombings to
Speaker 1: shootings to whatever anyway, and then if you send a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of drones at something, it's very difficult to stop.
Speaker 1: So in this big contest, Boeing showcased a futuristic laser
Speaker 1: weapon that can punch a hole straight through a hostile
Speaker 1: area threat aerial threat laser weapon. But they lost and
Speaker 1: several other defense giants lost to four college students.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Oh yeah, straight out of the Right Brothers.
Speaker 1: If you're not for would you like to give a
Speaker 1: very brief overview of the situation.
Speaker 3: When the Right Brothers were doing their work well, the federal.
Speaker 1: Government was spending tons of money on various projects to
Speaker 1: try to come up with manned flight and it surprisingly,
Speaker 1: not surprisingly, didn't work at all. Lots of waste, lots
Speaker 1: of very slow, lots of bad ideas, lots of bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Couple of guys who run a
Speaker 1: bicycle shop without all the bureaucracy and the hang ups,
Speaker 1: and using their ingenuity beat the federal government on a
Speaker 1: shoestring budget compared to the what DC was spending trying
Speaker 1: to get a plan out of the The euro governments
Speaker 1: were working on that too, but it was plucky, you know, entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: So anyway, four college students won the damned contest. They
Speaker 1: knocked the drones out of the sky using sound waves.
Speaker 1: The rookies device was developed in the backyard of one
Speaker 1: of the students parents using an old car speaker. If
Speaker 1: you can believe that, let's see the four University of
Speaker 1: Toronto engineering students spent around seventeen thousand dollars of their
Speaker 1: own money to develop their anti drone technology. Their speaker
Speaker 1: like device blasts ultrasound waves that destabilize the drones navigation systems,
Speaker 1: sending them off course.
Speaker 3: Or crashing to the ground. Well, that is very right,
Speaker 3: brothers E.
Speaker 1: And that they used bicycle parts and standing on the
Speaker 1: beach observing the wings of birds to put this together
Speaker 1: with not very much money, a car speaker and not
Speaker 1: much money to bring down drones.
Speaker 3: Pretty good, right, And.
Speaker 1: This is such a brilliant example of free enterprise in
Speaker 1: the free market, and how just what an incredible blessing
Speaker 1: it is as opposed to you know, big elephantine central planning,
Speaker 1: you know, government controlled crap. Please look at China. I
Speaker 1: could go on for days. I got all sorts of
Speaker 1: interesting stories about China. But in Ukraine, for instance, there
Speaker 1: are more than two hundred mainly small drone makers who
Speaker 1: are innovating like crazy all the time. And that's the
Speaker 1: way progress is made. Boy, this is going to move
Speaker 1: so fast though that I mean, the drones came on
Speaker 1: the scene so fast, and then the progress at shooting
Speaker 1: them down, and then I'm sure some newer drone that
Speaker 1: gets around that this is all going to happen at
Speaker 1: a speed like nothing like happened with machine guns, tanks, planes,
Speaker 1: et cetera. F twenty two's Yeah, how long does it
Speaker 1: take to develop the next you know, with all in
Speaker 1: all fairness, I mean, fighter plane's an incredibly complex set
Speaker 1: of systems and technologies and the rest of it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: do you see the article over the weekend about how
Speaker 1: we're taking a whole bunch of old air strips that
Speaker 1: we have on various islands over there by China and
Speaker 1: getting them back up to speed again, No, I missed
Speaker 1: that man.
Speaker 3: That got my attention.
Speaker 1: A bunch of airfields and territories that we have that
Speaker 1: I didn't even know we have. We have a lot
Speaker 1: more land than I think most Americans are aware of,
Speaker 1: but little islands that we had built no airports airbases
Speaker 1: at during World War II and had been taken back
Speaker 1: over by the jungle over the last seventy five years
Speaker 1: because we didn't need them.
Speaker 3: Well, we're getting prepared for war with China.
Speaker 1: And that's what really got my attention is that we're
Speaker 1: taking this seriously enough that a lot of these were
Speaker 1: cutting down the trees and repaving the thing and getting
Speaker 1: these different little air strips around that part of the
Speaker 1: world back up to speed so we can land and
Speaker 1: take off if we need to go to war with China. Oof.
Speaker 1: That's a hellic thing. I'm glad we're doing it, but
Speaker 1: it's very sobering to think about. As I said, I
Speaker 1: missed that. But I'll bet some of the names would
Speaker 1: sound familiar to World War two. Baff sure, absolutely, some
Speaker 1: of those island battles and everything.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: And one final note, totally apolitical, although again, everything eventually
Speaker 1: gets political in a way, doesn't it these days. I
Speaker 1: love this headline happens to be from the Journal. Does
Speaker 1: everything in your blue binet really get recycled? You would
Speaker 1: be surprised.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't. We've been talking about
Speaker 3: this for years.
Speaker 1: But you know what, actually, you might be surprised at
Speaker 1: how pathetic it is. It's the law in my town,
Speaker 1: you get. If they find out you're not doing it,
Speaker 1: you'll get fined. So that's why I tell the kids,
Speaker 1: I know it's stupid. Let's put the plastic bottles here,
Speaker 1: in the cardboard there and the other traction there, just
Speaker 1: so I don't get a freaking fine. Wow, they forced
Speaker 1: you to your knees to submit to their dictatorshipt or oppressions,
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna pay a fine. Why would I want
Speaker 1: to do that? Even though would Alexi Navalny say, Jack
Speaker 1: his memoirs out by the way, I really want to
Speaker 1: read that.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be incredibly moving. That's completely fair. What
Speaker 3: Alexi da voltis.
Speaker 1: Your submission to the brutalities of a dictator. I tell
Speaker 1: the kids, it's no more effort to put the bottles
Speaker 1: in that trash can than that trash can, so let's
Speaker 1: just do it. But it's dumb. There's no doubt it's dumb.
Speaker 1: The fact that I have to pay for the trash
Speaker 1: can is what makes me so angry. You have to
Speaker 1: have it. It's like whatever it is, fifty bucks a
Speaker 1: month or something like that. Michael, what's the old saying?
Speaker 1: All that's required of good men for evil recyclers to
Speaker 1: triumph is their silence. Man, if there's a hill I'm
Speaker 1: gonna die on, it ain't this one anyway. So plastic
Speaker 1: containers and packaging, the plastic that goes in the blue
Speaker 1: pin or whatever you have, guess what percentage actually gets recycled.
Speaker 1: If it was half it would be horrible, It would
Speaker 1: be mockable. Right, How do you feel about thirteen point
Speaker 1: six percent?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Thirteen point six friends, Again, if it was half, it
Speaker 1: would be supermarkable, Like half of this stuff gets in
Speaker 1: the regular trash anyway. No, it's so it's a significant
Speaker 1: go ahead. Sorry, so it's eighty seven percent. Well, I
Speaker 1: get the rest of the numbers. Another seventeen percent got incinerated. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Burne significantly more got incinerated than recycled.
Speaker 3: Nearly seventy percent went to the landfill. There you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unbelievable. Now paper paper, eighty one percent actually gets recycled.
Speaker 3: Okay, So like cardboard and stuff, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh,
Speaker 3: glass containers.
Speaker 1: About thirty one percent aluminum, including cans and foil, it
Speaker 1: was around thirty five percent. Quit saying that with the
Speaker 1: tone of voice, like, that's good. Thirty percent of Oh
Speaker 1: use whatever tone of voice. I want you on your knees,
Speaker 1: submitting to the commune in your down lazio to lecture.
Speaker 1: Thirty of the glass gets recycled.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's that's a wind.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, why are we even doing this? Aluminum,
Speaker 1: which I'd assumed was like one hundred percent is thirty
Speaker 1: five percent. Well, and everywhere I live anyway, you know
Speaker 1: in California, you got at all stores the four different
Speaker 1: kinds of trash cans everywhere you go, and yeah, it
Speaker 1: all goes into the same lens, and they got different
Speaker 1: kinds of holes and different kinds. Can't figure it out,
Speaker 1: and it's always listed as like composts or this one.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. It's so hard. But
Speaker 1: so it's all just going the same place anyway, the
Speaker 1: bulk of it.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'll tell you what it is. It's bull crap.
Speaker 1: It's fraud. It's virtue signaling fraud, and somebody's making a
Speaker 1: lot of money off of it, which you can't forget.
Speaker 1: All the time, there are people profiting greatly off of
Speaker 1: this fraud. That's what keeps it going. It's not the
Speaker 1: we're helping the environment a little bit. It's like, wait,
Speaker 1: we got the special trucks, we got special cans, we
Speaker 1: got all the people that work for this thing that
Speaker 1: does nothing. Yeah, if that revenue stopped, our campaign contributions
Speaker 1: might have to stop.
Speaker 3: So maybe we stick with the blue bin. Huh.
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Thirteen percent of the plastic actually gets recycled. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal with a heck of an editorial piece
Speaker 1: today that's getting a fair amount of attention. Who's the
Speaker 1: actual fascist Trump or Biden. We'll get to that at
Speaker 1: some point. Stay with us.
Speaker 5: Are strong.
Speaker 6: This guy, This is a guy that was all man.
Speaker 6: This man was strong and tough. And I refused to
Speaker 6: say it. But when he took showers with the other
Speaker 6: pros they came out of there, they said, Oh my god,
Speaker 6: that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I had to say it, so we left.
Speaker 1: It was But so that was Donald Trump and Latrobe, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: hometown of Arnold Palmer, who was the most famous golfer
Speaker 1: in the world for quite a while and the biggest
Speaker 1: pitch man in the world for my whole life, and
Speaker 1: endorsing oil or whatever. Anyway, Arnold Palmer and Trump is
Speaker 1: old so as Arnold Palmer was a hero to him,
Speaker 1: and talking about how apparently Arnold Palmer was blessed and
Speaker 1: guys would notice in the locker room, and that is
Speaker 1: if fire the last five list five things I wanted
Speaker 1: to say about Arnold Palmer that would not have made
Speaker 1: the list, but it made the crowd. Laugh, and it
Speaker 1: made the media's head explode as he is, you know,
Speaker 1: devolved into vulgar references to male genitalia at his is
Speaker 1: it his rally? So all right, there is ten seconds
Speaker 1: at an hour and a half rally and whatever. But
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal has got an interesting opinion in
Speaker 1: Peace Today of who's the fascist Trump or Biden. They
Speaker 1: go through some examples. We'll get to that next hour.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that a little bit. So
Speaker 1: I had a rare opportunity to do anything other than
Speaker 1: parent over the weekend, and I went to San Francisco
Speaker 1: for a night and I got to see my first
Speaker 1: I've seen many drug casualties being a guy who lives
Speaker 1: in California over the years, but I had not seen
Speaker 1: any of the people that are on trank or whatever
Speaker 1: the new stuff is where you're a zombie. And I
Speaker 1: left the completely barren Union Square area of San Francisco
Speaker 1: where there were just no people at all, tourists, shore
Speaker 1: homeless people or anybody. Lots of cops, lots of armed guards,
Speaker 1: but really no cars or people. And then I was
Speaker 1: driving to another area to do some shopping and I
Speaker 1: drove down Mission, which is kind of a famous, very
Speaker 1: seedy street of San Francisco, and I was driving down
Speaker 1: Mission and it was just a sea of humanity. All
Speaker 1: sleep been on the street, whizzing on the street, leaning
Speaker 1: up against buildings. But I saw some of the people
Speaker 1: doing the lean where they just stand there and they
Speaker 1: kind of hang like a zombie out of a movie.
Speaker 1: It's like it was a bent over at the waist.
Speaker 1: It was like it was a Halloween thing, like you know,
Speaker 1: their mouths kind open their eyes and they just standing
Speaker 1: there and they just sway.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 1: Wow. I saw lots of people doing that. I'd never seen.
Speaker 1: I'd never seen that with my own eyes. It's quite shocking.
Speaker 3: Sentinel, the sentinel leaner, the trank lean whatever they're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I and it's something to witness. To think that.
Speaker 1: You could allow society to devolve into that is amazing.
Speaker 1: And then I saw this article in the New York
Speaker 1: Times under an LA Freeway a psychiatric rescue mission. The
Speaker 1: crisis of homelessness is pushing American psychiatry to places it
Speaker 1: has not gone before, like sidewalk injections of antipsychotics. So
Speaker 1: the headline mentioning homelessness and not the fact that these
Speaker 1: are all drug addicts, that we have a rug addiction problem,
Speaker 1: an explosion of the worst kind of drugs that I've
Speaker 1: ever been developed are being used in the streets. Not
Speaker 1: that it's it's homelessness, it's that that's the problem. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't have any problem with treating people with psychiatric problems,
Speaker 1: because we've failed miserably dealing with mental illness and housing
Speaker 1: prices are high. But why will you never talk about
Speaker 1: the drug crisis, which is which is like the whole problem.
Speaker 1: It's very very first, a lot
Speaker 3: Of it Armstrong and getty